The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-02-25

ways 50 kind. 1t is just what l was
wishing. Do you know l sometimes
think you the mOst-''and caught
no more Ofthe silvery sentence, for she
had gone off with Mr.. NOnderbust,
catching up her daperies as she flashed
all light and grace, and presently trip
ping down the stairs in a close fitting
dark serge, with a cocks feather in
her little turban hat, andhalf adOzcn
other youths had sprung to hold her
parasOl, to button her gloves, to walk
beside her to the spot where Mr.. Won
derbust waited with his new HamDle-
t~Onian, whose pace they were going to
try together.
When Bette came back she came
directly to me where | sat Onthe piaz-
ia with my crOcheting. eff you don't
mind going in to lunch with me-" she
said. didn't understand until after
wards that was part OF heroic, too.
1t gave people pleasant things to say
of her kindness to a fOrlOrn old spins
ter, for one thing; but the main thing
I'm afraid ii had cOmDrehended it
in the beginning | should put an end
to it Out OF haud-was that, quite
innocent and ignorant Of it all, | a
her chaperon. 1T is such a misfOr-
tune" she said to the right people,
"that my own dear chaper0n, who
always takes NE about, vas obliged
to leave almost as soon rs We came;
and | should have had to go, too, and
be buried alive somewhere, | suppose,
if my dear little Miss RuggIes had not
happened to be mere, and she has ia
ken charge of me so kindly" Take
charge of that mink, I should as soon
have thought OF taking charge OF a
illO'-the-wisp.
"NOw YOU see what | mean when |
say it is necessary here to be always
on evidence. You're forgotten ifyou're
not. Out of sight, out OF mind. l am
here to be seen. II hadn't been sit
ting here with you that absurd little
NOnderbust wOuld't have asked ME
to drive, and the others wouldn't all
have gone to pulling caps about wait
ing on me to the dOg-Cart, and Mr.,
DunrObin wouldn't have seen it as he
sat there withhis cigar. When have
filled everybody's eyes Mr.. Dunrobln
will begin to see me. So | an always
very plainly visible with my train of
idiots. O yes, ] am as light as froth,
but it's a game as deep as the sea
underneath"
"Bertie. I'm ashamed of human
nature when | hear you talk"
"No OCCASION" crumbIingh her bread.
"You wouldn't be ashamed of me if |
were trying to make atortune by what
you call honest labor. Well, if this
labor, | should Ijketo know what
it is"
"Labor!,"
"It's labor enough, let me assure
you, just to talk to these whipper-
snappers, It's more trouble than it
would be to write a book to graduate
conversation to the level of their
intelects, if they ms We any intel
lects-Penhurst, and De Lacy, and
Van Stout, and the whole set. You
havet % make believe to each M that
you find him perfectly delightful. If
the least atom above his com
prehensiOn in your talk, or silent, or
slow, good-by; and good-by to one,
goodbye to all. If ope sees another
over your chair, he thinks
there's something worth while there,
and he is coming in for his share; but
il he doesn't see anybody he is going
where it is plain there is something
the other fellows admire. Do yousee?
Here they come; l thought they
would"
She ran into my room one night be-
fore going down in the german, Gam
/ all rightE' she said. "Come down
with me, that's a dear"
"Why don't you rest tonight" /
asked, not yet aware OF my chaperon-
age,
Rest she said. GAS if there were
any rest in the middle of a campaign!
I'll rest when I'm through
Bette, I'm afraid"
what of That / shall fail? Well,
what if / do? Folks have failed before.
Ard if fail, life won't be worth a
cent. and there's always q river you
Bette Bennettl I'll have nothing
more to do with you at all, / think
you are"
"As bad as bad can be! Then come
down and help me not 20 fail. I've
got to dance tonight till the last
and take ices and drink cham
payne with the best of them or the
Of them, just as if / were to the
manner born. If | don't dance the
first dance, then the othere will think
something's up or nobody wants me,
or I'm an old story, and | shan't
have q partner all the rest of the
night. It's kIlling-this pace. Do you
think / am falling off any?'
Failing Off" said /. There's
nothing to fall of. You'll be- the o
piquant and taking the more faded
you are. You'll be prettier at 40